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To: Dayuhan who wrote (22769)	3/31/2002 1:18:40 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

The record number of immigrants in 1935 (see table) was a response to the growing persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany. The British administration considered this number too large, however, so the Jewish Agency was informed that less than one-third of the quota it asked for would be approved in 1936.6 The British gave in further to Arab demands by announcing in the 1939 White Paper that an independent Arab state would be created within 10 years, and that Jewish immigration was to be limited to 75,000 for the next five years, after which it was to cease altogether. It also forbade land sales to Jews in 95 percent of the territory of Palestine. The Arabs, nevertheless, rejected the proposal. The restriction of immigration began in 1936, which is in the mid-thirties. I had remembered the White Paper as blocking all immigration immediately instead of five years on, but I was wrong about that. Nonetheless, you can see from the figures that immigration was sharply reduced from 1936 on. These were the years when a million desperate Jews were trying to get out of Europe, so it wasn't reduced from lack of demand.